Brass Cash Registers
 
Cabinet Styles
The following are many of the styles of cabinets that National used on their press down key registers. These styles were used and reused with some slight changes for most of the brass era. I will start with the earliest and try to keep them in order.
 
NCR used model numbers on their machines but you will find that you are better off describing a machine by the number of keys that it has or width and the cabinet style with the finish.  Example: They made a model 39 in fine scroll, fleur-de-lis, Renaissance, and Dolphin pattern. Each has a different look and value.
 
These are early rare wood cabinet paper punch registers. Almost one of a kind.
 
 
 
Wooden cabinets
 
National started to make metal cabinets out of brass & bronze. In the begining these were sheet metal with enamaled, scribed or slightly raised design
 
 
 
 
Brass, bronze and nickel cabinets:
 
The fine scroll pattern
 
Wide scroll pattern
 
Ionic pattern (cast iron)
 
Fleur-de-lis
 
Renaissance
 
Art Nouveau
 
Bohemian
 
Conservative Bohemian
 
 
Modern Bohemiam
 
 
Dolphin pattern
 
This is a rare Dial register that was meant to compete with the Kruse register co.
Not many sold.

 
Almost all of these machines were also made in flat metal. Early ones in brass and later ones in steal. Early one were sometimes polished and the pattern scribed on the cabinets. Others were painted and then a nice pattern painted on it. The most common that you will find will be steal painted with a wood grained finish or black wrinkle finish.
 
 
 
Crank or electric machines:
 
Fine scroll
 
Empire series
 
 
Drawer operated series (1000 class)
 
Early style
 
Modern style
 
with auto-graph window
 
 
European cabinet:
NCR had many companies world wide. These were often mechanically different because of the money and sometimes they created their own cabinet styles. This is one that you will see.
 
Dogwood pattern
 
 
Model 742, early German built flat keyboard machine with rare top sign.
 
 
 There will be a lot of patterns that are variations of these patterns or were only used for a short time. These may be rare. Also NCR absorbed many other cash register companies and some continued to produce the same machine with Nationals name on it. These are also a nice find.
 
 I hope this helps you to understand a little better. Good hunting.
 
Dick  
 
 
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